Quotes from Barbra Streisand

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.